Colleagues, ours is a uniquely demanding profession. In no other job do you endanger your coworker’s soul if you call out to him in the course of your duties. But since a demon has power over you once it knows your name, well-meant warnings such as “Buck! Behind you!” can have tragic consequences.

Rated G. Important safety tip. (Thanks, Egon.)

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Dude, I always hate when there’s that whole reference problem during demon hunting. The problem also seems to arise during business meetings, as the demon/presenter may use the name to invoke a person to complete heinous tasks such as preparing PowerPoint presentations or scheduling the next teleconference (shudder)

This sounded so much like Frank Key’s own writing, I had to double check as to whether Escape Pod had changed its policy about writers reading their own works.
I encourage everyone who enjoyed this to further explore Hooting Yard and experience the weirdness that is unique to Mr. Key.

[…] Frank Key’s Hooting Yard podcast is one of my absolute favorites, and I was honored to have Mr. Key narrate a piece for Escape Pod. So I know what that’s about. And if “Tristan Shuddery” is capable of appreciating the fine aesthetic derangement of Frank Key’s work, it seems tremendously unlikely to me that he himself would actually be deranged enough to say what he said about the iPod. […]